Werner J. Blau

34.6k citations

482 papers · 28.1k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 75

Impact in

Polymers and Plastics top 0.05%
- Conducting polymers and applications
- Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties
Materials Chemistry top 0.05%
- Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
- Graphene research and applications
- Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry

Papers in

Materials Chemistry 269
- Carbon Nanotubes in Composites 116
- Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry 72
- Graphene research and applications 38
Polymers and Plastics 77
- Conducting polymers and applications 65

Co-authors: Jonathan N. Coleman Yurii K. Gun’ko Umar Khan Jun Wang Martin Cadek Valeria Nicolosi Hugh J. Byrne Anna Drury
Journals: Synthetic Metals (39 papers)Applied Physics Letters (26 papers)Chemical Physics Letters (23 papers)Advanced Materials (15 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (14 papers)
Partner nations: Ireland Germany China

In The Last Decade

Werner J. Blau

471 papers receiving 27.3k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Production of Highly Monolayer Enriched Dispersions of Liquid-Exfoliated Nanosheets by Liquid Cascade Centrifugation 2016 · 387 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 ACS Nano
2013 ACS Nano
2009 ACS Nano
2007 Advanced Materials
2006 Carbon
2004 Advanced Functional Materials
2002 Journal of Applied Physics
2002 Applied Physics Letters
2001 Nano Letters
1998 Advanced Materials

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1	1857P Eftilagimod alpha (soluble LAG-3 protein) combined with first-line chemo-immunotherapy in metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): Updates from INSIGHT-003 (IKF614) Annals of Oncology ·Akin Atmaca, Е.Г. Шапиро, 英大萩谷, Yoshio Sano, Alex Stein, Daniel Pink, Christian Becker, Werner J. Blau, M. Recio, B Maheu, A.W. Bates, Cynthia R. Gregory, Jen Syson, E. Jaeger, David W.M. Muller, David Joa-Espinal, You Xiaohe, Sabine Gehrke-Beck, S-E. Al-Batran, Thorsten Oliver Goetze	2025	0
2	1448P First-line nivolumab (NIVO) plus ipilimumab (IPI) with two cycles of chemotherapy in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): Results from an interim analysis of the non-interventional FINN study Annals of Oncology ·Jonas Kuon, L. Bontemps, Stefan Wilop, Dirk Behringer, Werner J. Blau, W. Meigel, Dimitri Flieger, Helmut Forstbauer, Cabral de Moura Borges, Lingfang Tian, Prof. Digambar Jadhav, Christian Schumann, Denyse Beaugrand-Champagne, S Gütz	2023	0
3	Preparation of WS₂–PMMA composite films for optical applications Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Beata M. Szydłowska, Arko Graf, Adam G. Kelly, Werner J. Blau, Malte C. Gather, Jana Zaumseil, Claudia Backes	2020	12
4	Broadband saturable absorption and exciton-exciton annihilation in MoSe₂ composite thin films Optical Materials Express ·Gaozhong Wang, В.В. Соколова, Xiaoyan Zhang, Daniel Bennett, Jing Jing Wang, Jun Wang, Kangpeng Wang, Werner J. Blau	2019	21
5	Intensity-dependent nonlinear refraction of antimonene dispersions in the visible and near-infrared region Applied Optics ·Gaozhong Wang, S. J. Higgins, Kangpeng Wang, Daniel Bennett, K Y Jung, John James Magan, Saifeng Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jun Wang, Werner J. Blau	2018	34
6	Nonlinear optical performance of few-layer molybdenum diselenide as a slow-saturable absorber Photonics Research ·Gaozhong Wang, Paul D. Buhl, В.В. Соколова, Kangpeng Wang, Jing Jing Wang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Daniel Bennett, Jingting Luo, Jun Wang, Ping Fan, Werner J. Blau	2018	40
7	A General Strategy for Hybrid Thin Film Fabrication and Transfer onto Arbitrary Substrates Scientific Reports ·Yong Zhang, John James Magan, Werner J. Blau	2014	10
8	Solvent effect on the nonlinear absorption of 5,10-A2B2meso substituted porphyrins Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences ·Monika Zawadzka, Jun Wang, Werner J. Blau, Mathias O. Senge	2013	9
9	Graphene incorporated Q-switching of a polarization-maintaining Yb-doped fiber laser Laser Physics Letters ·Lei Zhang, Samuel McCarthy, shiori niwa, Jinmeng Hu, Mustafa Lotya, Miriam Ripoll Ruiz, Sepideh Sadeghi Seraji, Werner J. Blau, Jonathan N. Coleman, P Mansanti, Yan Feng	2012	34
10	The electrical stimulation of carbon nanotubes to provide a cardiomimetic cue to MSCs Biomaterials ·Hong Wu, Bo Zhang, David Blond, Eoin D. O’Cearbhaill, Georgina Shaw, Werner J. Blau, Frank Barry, Valerie Barron, Mary Murphy	2012	166
11	B-cell lymphoma in a tubular adenoma with high-grade dysplasia: a rare extramedullary manifestation of high-grade diffuse large B-cell lymphoma Endoscopy ·Elke Roeb, Mathias Rummel, Werner J. Blau, Benjamin Etschmann, Stefan Gattenlöhner	2011	3
12	In situsynthesis and optical limiting response of poly(N-vinylcarbazole) functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes Nanotechnology ·Peipei Li, Lijuan Niu, Yu Chen, Jun Wang, Ying Liu, Jinjuan Zhang, Werner J. Blau	2010	13
13	Characterization of melanin-overproducing transposon mutants ofPseudomonas putidaF6 FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Jasmina Nikodinović‐Runić, M.S. Latyshev, Ramesh Babu, Werner J. Blau, Kevin E. O’Connor	2009	18
14	The conversion of BTEX compounds by single and defined mixed cultures to medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ·Jasmina Nikodinović‐Runić, Shane T. Kenny, Ramesh Babu, Trevor Woods, Werner J. Blau, Kevin E. O’Connor	2008	52
15	Hydrogen in Chemical Vapour Deposited Carbon Nanotubes: An Active Site for Functionalization Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ·Elby Titus, S. Hartkopp, J.C. Madaleno, Margarida C. Coelho, Sarah Schimidt, Werner J. Blau, D.S. Misra, J. Grácio	2008	2
16	The photophysics of fac-[Re(CO)3(dppz)(py)]+ in CH3CN: a comparative picosecond flash photolysis, transient infrared, transient resonance Raman and density functional theoretical study Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences ·Joanne Dyer, Werner J. Blau, Colin G. Coates, Caitriona Creely, Houg Tao Shih, Michael W. George, David C. Grills, Sarah Hudson, John M. Kelly, Pavel Matousek, John J. McGarvey, Jonathan McMaster, Anthony W. Parker, Michael Towrie, Julia A. Weinstein	2003	84
17	Synthesis and Optical Limiting Properties of Axially Bridged Phthalocyanines: [(tBu4PcGa)2O] and [(tBu4PcIn)2O] Chemistry - A European Journal ·Yu Chen, L. R. Subramanian, Mamoru Fujitsuka, Osamu Ito, Seán M. O’Flaherty, Werner J. Blau, Yunhao Xiao, Danilo Dini, Michael Hanack	2002	64
18	The effect of Nd:YAG pulse duration on dentine crater depth Journal of Dentistry ·Ailbhe McDonald, Noel Claffey, G. Pearson, Werner J. Blau, Derrick J. Setchell	2001	9
19	Effect of Nd:YAG radiation at millisecond pulse duration on dentine crater depth Lasers in Surgery and Medicine ·Roger T. Servison, Noel Claffey, G.J. Pearson, Werner J. Blau, Derrick J. Setchell	2000	10
20	Anwendung der „Optimalfilter‐Methode” bei der röntgendiffraktometrischen Bestimmung von Differenz‐Elektronendichten Kristall und Technik ·Gregorio Pedrini, Werner J. Blau, Douglas W. Stephan, van Santen Hanneke Margo	1975	2

About Werner J. Blau

Werner J. Blau is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, having authored 482 papers that have together received 28.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (125 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (116 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (72 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (65 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (57 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (44 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (38 papers) and Graphene research and applications (38 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Polymers and Plastics (6.9k citations), Materials Chemistry (18.4k citations), Biomedical Engineering (11.6k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (4.0k citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (4.4k citations). Werner J. Blau has collaborated with scholars based in Ireland, Germany and China. Frequent co-authors include Jonathan N. Coleman, Yurii K. Gun’ko, Umar Khan, Jun Wang, Martin Cadek, Valeria Nicolosi, Hugh J. Byrne, Anna Drury, Alan Β. Dalton and A.P. Davey. Their work appears in journals such as Synthetic Metals, Applied Physics Letters, Chemical Physics Letters, Advanced Materials and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

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